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Page vii
... philosopher for whom the things of the soul were the sovereign realities of existence . ' Thus modestly announced , the little volume made its quiet début . It contained nothing , or almost nothing , of ordinary biographical material ...
... philosopher for whom the things of the soul were the sovereign realities of existence . ' Thus modestly announced , the little volume made its quiet début . It contained nothing , or almost nothing , of ordinary biographical material ...
Page xix
... philosopher or the critic wants to secure the full and fruitful development of his gifts . Unfortunately the appointment , instead of the foundation and sup- Geneva at the port , was to be the stumblingblock INTRODUCTION XIX.
... philosopher or the critic wants to secure the full and fruitful development of his gifts . Unfortunately the appointment , instead of the foundation and sup- Geneva at the port , was to be the stumblingblock INTRODUCTION XIX.
Page xxv
... philosopher has always tended to become unfit for practical life ; his unfitness , indeed , is one of the comic motives , so to speak , of literature . a mood which , in the great majority of thinkers , is intermittent , and is easily ...
... philosopher has always tended to become unfit for practical life ; his unfitness , indeed , is one of the comic motives , so to speak , of literature . a mood which , in the great majority of thinkers , is intermittent , and is easily ...
Page xxxi
... Church , which had been the centre of the national life during three centuries of honourable history , Amiel the philosopher , the cosmopolitan , threw himself ardently on to the side of the opponents of separation INTRODUCTION xxxi.
... Church , which had been the centre of the national life during three centuries of honourable history , Amiel the philosopher , the cosmopolitan , threw himself ardently on to the side of the opponents of separation INTRODUCTION xxxi.
Page xxxvii
... philosopher ; there are others , though not many , into which a certain German heaviness and diffuseness has crept , dulling the edge of the sentences , and retarding the develop- ment of the thought . When all deductions have been made ...
... philosopher ; there are others , though not many , into which a certain German heaviness and diffuseness has crept , dulling the edge of the sentences , and retarding the develop- ment of the thought . When all deductions have been made ...
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Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frederic Amiel - Primary Source ... Henri édéric Amiel,Humphry Ward No preview available - 2014 |
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri Frederic Amiel Henri-Frederic Amiel No preview available - 2016 |
Amiel's Journal: The Journal Intime of Henri-Frédéric Amiel Henri Frederic Amiel,Humphry Ward No preview available - 2018 |
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